In the evolutionary process of civilisations, the human beings have suffered countless losses and challenges in the long-term journey from dark age to the age of enlightenment. However, evidences suggest that the regimes and governments have followed the precedent pattern of atrocities towards their citizens to sustain their power at the expense of well-being.
Let me discuss some key characteristics which a failed state comprises in its nature. Disregarding the rule of law, creating a culture of chaos and fear, militarisation and violence, negative propaganda and disinformation, isolating the public from the accessibility of international organisations like human rights and media, surveillance and monitoring, suppressing the dissent and practicing brutality and barbarism are indubitably the key facts which a failed state has in its nature.
There are numerous instances of such states exercising the very blind power. Some notable case studies are as under;
1- Nazi Germany: Where the holocaust resulted in the deaths of over six millions people.
2- Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge: The harsh social policies led to a countless number of deaths.
3- Chile under Pinochet: Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship was marked by human rights abuses including torture, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions.
4- Argentina’s Dirty War: The war includes the forced disappearances, torture and extrajudicial killings led by Jorge Videla.
6- The Era of Apartheid in Africa resulted in the human trafficking of hundreds of thousands of people.
Discussing further, following the orthodox pattern of a failed state, it is practicing the same principle as well. In this state, the dissent voices and opinions are suppressed, masses are subjected to forced disappearances, facing a worst fate of extrajudicial executions. The masses are denied to fundamental human rights and dignity, also are put under threat and intimidation. Though, the state, through its actions, has consequently led to the state of chaos.
Validating the very facts, it is not necessarily crucial to discuss all the atrocities and crimes committed by this deep-state since it has inflicted upon the Baloch from the very first day of the colonial onset, but rather to discuss the recent crackdowns on the peaceful protesters. It is crystal clear that the state has unveiled its nature as a failed state. It, with its heinous intentions, deliberately created a state of chaos and extra-judicially killed at least 33 people and buried 13 out of these or maybe some others in the very middle of the night. Amidst these detained-cum-disappeared Bebarg Baloch, known to be a central member of Baloch Yekjehti Committee (BYC), compelling them to take to the streets for his safe release.
The state, with its omnipotence, soon launched a havoc on the participants of sit-in in front of University of Balochistan leaving at least three to death and many more injured. This didn’t seize here but created a crisis amongst the Baloch masses: as the midnight supper was about to begin, by shelling tear gas and beating the participants indiscriminately, they took the dead bodies away forcefully, detaining-cum-disappearing Dr. Mahrang Baloch and other protesters to an unknown location cultivating a new discomfort and a political turmoil.
Moreover, another crackdown was launched on the protesters cumulating in a massive barbarous attack and savage crackdown by firing live ammunition and shelling tear gases upon the demonstrators in Saryab, letting fire on the shops by its own troops and personnels.
As Albert Memmi writes; “Since the native is subhuman, the Declaration of Human Rights does not apply to him; inversely, since he has no rights, he is abandoned without protection to inhuman forces – brought in with the colonialist praxis, engendered every moment by the colonialist apparatus, and sustained by relations of production that define two sorts of individuals – one for whom privilege and humanity are one, who becomes a human being through exercising his rights; and the other, for whom a denial of rights sanctions misery, chronic hunger, ignorance, or, in general, ‘sub-humanity.” Here the state is the coloniser and the Baloch is the colonised.
All the aforementioned facts are the evidence that shows the nature of an atrocious and failed state. Notably, such states have faced the consequences like the Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, Saddam Hussain’s regime and the Assad’s regime.
In conclusion, this state in particular, as a declined state, with unbridled power and monopolistic regime, has proved that its nature is like a shrinking state which can survive merely by infecting atrocities in the form of escalation of violence, massive assault, widespread brutality, deadly assaults and violent clampdown on the people or otherwise will suffer a collapse.
